Art of Remembrance – City as a Protagonist
Mnemopolitics.Mnemotopias.Mnemopoetics.
(in English language)
October 8-12, 2010 Prague
Encounters IV event, Art of Remembrance – City as a Protagonist is part of the project Mnemosyne – Theatre of Memories/Getting Together: Part 1.
Programme
ELKE KRASNY
Presentation of the book 'City and Women. Another Topography of Vienna'
Gender Studies, Gorazdova 20
Friday, October 8, 2010. 19.00 – 21.00
The book City and Women. Another Topography of Vienna, was made after Elke Krasny had shared daily walking routes with 20 women in the city of Vienna. What came for is a set of stories about present and past of Viennese women, such as Alma Rosé, a violine player killed in Auschwitz, Dorothea Neff, actress, righteous among the nations who used to hide her Jewish colleague during the WWII, Veza Canetti who described the Vienna Yellow street in the book of the same name, and many, many more.
What is the connection between present and past in the tissue of a city, who are the agents of inscribing history in space and where are the links with future?
By this occasion, Elke Krasny is trying to answer these question.
Workshop 'Prague – City of Remembrance'
Gender Studies, Gorazdova 20
Saturday, October 9, 2010. 10.30-13.00
As urban researcher and curator, Elke Krasny works with problems of space production, mnemopolitics, representations and identity constructs. Spaces of remembrance or mnemotopias are places where she intervenes and enables alternative layers of history to emerge. The method of narrative urbanism that she conceptualized and applied in many projects links personal memories with locations of collective remembrance. The exhibition "City and Women. Another Topography of Vienna" that took place in Vienna Library in Vienna City Hall in 2008, showed a feminist remapping of Wienna city history through actual and personal daily routes of twenty women living in Vienna. The book of the same name is serving in this workshop to explain the curatorial research methodology.
Participants of the workshop can use this opportunity to go deeper into the methodologies of transforming daily walking routes to constructive grid of remembrance production: these daily routes are becoming the point of departure for articulation of Prague's collective remembrance traces and personal memories of the time before 1989.
Citizens of Prague are invited to share their personal routes through the city. The goal is to penetrate hegemonial culture of remembrance from gender histories perspective and to raise awareness of connections between physical space and mnemopolitics.
It is about linking the everydayness to the cityspace and its remembrance layers from the time of the WWII and communism epoch. The participants of the workshop are invited also to look for witnesses of those time in their own milieu, to emphasise the importance of intergenerational communication.
Individual walks Walking through Prague to remember
with Elke Krasny/Sonja Leboš
are to be scheduled in accordance to participants' needs: on Saturday (October 9) and Sunday (October 10) afternoon, 14.30-18.00, and with Sonja Leboš on Monday (October 11) morning, 9.30 – 13.00. The individual walks can be organized in English or German language.
'Prague – City of Remembrance' – Prague Coffehouse Sessions
Inspired by Lenka Reinerová’s love for Prague coffeehouses, their lively atmosphere of endless intellectual discussions she described, these sessions are guided by people who knew Lenka, and who will be able to show us her daily walking paths, her beloved spots and to convey the spirit of her presence in the city.
Friday, October 8, 2010. 14.30 – 17.00
Meeting point Disk Café, Karlova 26, Prague 1 at 14.30
(direction: metro station Staroméstska)
Saturday, October 9, 2010. 15.30 – 18.00
Meeting point Café Lucerna, Vodičkova 704/36 at 15.30
(direction: metro station Mustek)
Sunday, October 10, 2010. 10.30 – 13.00
Meeting point Café Slavia , Smetanovo nábřeži 2, Prague 1 at 10.30
(direction: metro station Národní třida)
Monday, October 11, 2010. 14.30 – 17.00
Meeting point Café Arco, Dláždéna 6, Prague 1 at 14.30
(direction: metro station Náměstí Republiky)
Tuesday, October 12, 2010. 14.30 – 17.00
Meeting point Café Slavia , Smetanovo nábřeži 2, Prague 1 at 10.30
(direction: metro station Národní třida)
Theatre of Remembrance
Dr. Emil Hácha (premiére) by Divadlo Feste
Sunday, October 10, 2010. 20 – 21.30
Roxy/NoD, Dlouha 33, Prague 1
Meeting point at the entrance to Roxy/NoD Theatre at 19.45
(direction: metro station Náměstí Republiky or tram station Dlouha třida, trams 8,14,26)
Emil Hácha (12 July 1872 – 26 June 1945) was a Czech lawyer, the third President of Czechoslovakia from 1938 to 1945. From March 1939, he presided under the German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Regarded by many as the most tragic person in Czech history, Emil Hácha’s life story is being revisited in this new play of Feste Theatre.
'Prague – City of Remembrance' – Visiting Lidice collection in the Czech Museum of Fine Arts
Tuesday, October 12, 2010. 10 - 12
Meeting point at the entrance of the Czech Museum of Fine Arts
So called Lidice-collection emerged in 1960' through donations by Czech and foreign artists to Lidice, the village which was completely destroyed by German forces in reprisal for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in the late spring of 1942. On June 10, 1942, all 192 men over 16 years of age from the village were murdered on the spot by the Germans in a much publicised atrocity. The rest of the population were sent to Nazi concentration camps where many women and nearly all the children were killed. Lenka Reinerová remembers Lidice on many pages of her books.
'Prague – City of Remembrance' – closing discussion
Gender Studies, Gorazdova 20
Tuesday, October 12, 2010. 18 – 20
Please note that this programme is tentative and some changes can occur.
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Organizer (AIIR) is covering entrance fee to the Feste Theatre play on Sunday, October 10 and visit to Lidice collection at the Czech Museum of Fine Arts for 5 participants of the Workshop 'Prague – City of Remembrance', on first applied, first served basis. Please contact us in advance.
On demand of more than 5 participants of the workshop, the organizer will also provide translation to Czech language. Individual walks with Elke Krasny are possible in English and German language.
Contact:
Gender Studies, o.p.s.
Gorazdova 20
120 00 Praha 2
Tel.: 224 915 666
e-mail: nina.bosnicova@genderstudies.cz>
or
Concept, production and organization:
Association for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Research (AIIR)
e-mail: office@uiii.org
In cooperation with:
Austrian Cultural Forum in Prague
Gender Studies, o.p.s., Prague